Car jack



P 1931- l E. BRASELMANN 1,824,768

CAR JACK Filed Jan. 6. 1930 Patented sept. 29, 1931 i UNITED STATES PATENT oFr cF.

Enema lament-mint, or BELLE, mum Bancxnnrnm), ennmiw I can JACK Application med January e, 1930, Serial 1%. 418,830; and in Germany September 17,1927.

This invention relates to a car jack, the

spindle of which is raised and held by two clamping plates adapted to adopt an inclined position with regard to the spindle, one of 5 said clamping plates adapted to be raised by means of a cam or lever, the other clamping plate being prevented from moving with the spindle and serving as locking device. The

. clamping points is perpendicular or approximately perpendicular to the spindle. I The spindle can thereforebe raised or lowered quite short distances.

' An embodiment of the invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings in which i Fig. 1 shows the car 1' tion.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation partly in section.

Fig. 3 is a topplan view.

a Fig. 4 shows in tilted position the feed plate serving to lift the spindle and under which the lifting cam acts.

Fig. 5 shows in tilted position the locking plate which holds the raised spindle and is M held at its end by the upright ofthe pack.

The spindle 1; of the car jack is guided in an upright 2, in which a feed plate 3 is shiftably mounted and adapted tobe lifted by means of a lifting cam 4 operated. by a hand lever. The feed plate 3 embraces the spindle 1 with little clearance. When lifted by the lifting cam 4, the feed plate. 3 assumes an inclined position (as shown in Fig. 4:) owing to the cam exerting an effect only on one side of the spindle, and the lifting plate, being edged, is ammed on the spindle so that, when being raised, it. lifts the "spindle. At the return movement of'the lifting cam 4 the feed plate 3 assumes through the action 50 of gravity the horizontal position sothat ack in side elevait' slides on the spindle 1 without any effect on the same. The spindle 1 is secured in the llfted position by a locking plate 5 embracing the spindle with little clearance. This locklng plate is oscillatably mounted in the frame at the point. 5a, so that it can adopt an incl1 ned position on the spindle 1, as shown in I Flg. 5. This locking plate, owing to its Inounting in the frame, can however not move up and down with the spindle, and by a clampmg action it secures the lifted spindle 1n its posltion. When the lifted spindle 1 has to be lowered, the free end of the locking plate 5 is raised, whereby the spindle 1 is liberated. The locking plate 5 is raised preferably with the aid of a short lever, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, 'so that by gradually raisin this locking plate the spindle can be raked at the descending movement. This lever is ta ered towards its point to enable it to be easily inserted be- 7 tween the locking plate 5 and the top of the upright 2. v

' To increase the clamping action of the feed plate 3 and of the-locking plate 5 u on the spindle 1, they are bothset off so t at the imaginary line, connecting the clamping points of the two plates is approximatel perpendicular to the axis of the spindle igs. 1 and 2). For adapting the spindle to the height of the axle of the car to be lifted the spindle can be simply'pulled upwards, as the two clamping plates only serve for lifting the spindle or to brake the descendin movement of the same.

Iclaim:

1. A car jack, comprising in combination with an upright frame and a spindle mounted in said frame, a. lifting plate loosely mounted on said frame'and embracing said spindle with little clearance, a lifting cam pivot-ally mountedon said frame under said lifting plate, a handle for operating said cam, and a locking plate hingedly mounted at one side on said frame and embracing said spindle with little clearance, saidtwo plates being-.96 formed at a suitable point so that the imaginary line between their clamping points is a proximately perpendicular to the axis of sai spindle.

2. A car] ack, comprising in combination '100 with an upright frame and a ram mounted in said frame, a lifting plate loosel mounted on said frame and embracing sai ram with little clearance, a lifting cam pivotally mounted on said frame under said lifting late, a hand lever for operating said cam, an a locking plate hingedly mounted at one side on said frame and embracing said ram with little clearance, said two plates being formed at a 10 suitable point so that the imaginary line between their clampinglpoints is apfroximate- 1y Perpendicular til) t e fazlzis aifx sai ram.

11 testimony w ereo a m signature. v EUGEN BRASEl JMANN. l5 

